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1917 (Original title)Nineteen-seventeen (Help search title)
Dates: 2019 (Copyright), 25 December 2019 (Release)

Countries: USA, United Kingdom, Spain, India

Director: Sam Mendes

Synopsis: War adventure-drama. In spring 1917, two young British soldiers are given the task of delivering a message to a colonel some distance away, across country, warning him not to go ahead with a planned push forward as the Germans are planning to ambush them. With 1,600 men's lives depending on the success of their mission, the soldiers, Lance Corporal Schofield and the chatty Lance Corporal Blake, set off and traverse much dangerous terrain, with some deadly encounters and attacks, and moments of human contact, until at long last the message can be delivered, if time still allows.

Genre:
War

Subjects:
World War I, Soldiers, Trench warfare, Weapons
Releases
Date: 25 December 2019Country: USARelease type: TheatricalFormat: not specified - Colour - SoundDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Universal Pictures
Date: 10 January 2020Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: not specified - Colour - SoundDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Entertainment One